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Description: | A fragment of a Medieval cast copper-alloy single loop buckle (c. 1350 -c. 1400). The fragment consists of half of the outside edge and part of the side of the frame. Breaks have occurred near the centre of the outer edge and at a narrow point on the side of the frame. The upper face is flat and the rear face is slightly convex. Decoration on the upper face consists of punched circles which all seem to have been created using the same punch. Close and parallel to the pin-rest there is a line of circles extending through the whole width of the frame. Further outwards from the pin-rest there is a row of three circles. This is followed by a triangular field of circles and then a group of three contiguous circles. Close to the outside edge, between the triangular field and the break at the narrow part of the frame, there is a curving line of circles.The fragment generally has a dark green patina. The breaks are old.Length: 45.04mm; width at pin rest: 17.47mm; width at narrow end: 5.45mm; thickness: 2.73mm. Weight: 8.52g.A similar shaped buckle with a design of punched circles in similar style has been recovered from archaeological excavations at Billingsgate, London (Egan and Pritchard 1991: 68, fig. 41, ref: 263). This London find has been dated c. 1350-1400 by association with ceramics. Similar buckles have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: IOW-8F9A92; IOW-F71B17; KENT-245C95; NMS-C6B4E1 and SF-D02E61. In particular, see find: IOW-F71B17.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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